An explosion has hit an election rally in Afghanistan's northeastern Takhar province killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, according to Associated Press news agency. Official casualty figures are still awaited.

An election candidate was among four persons killed in a bomb explosion ... 10. Poll-related violence has increased ahead of the elections. Last week, 12 people were killed and 32 injured in a bomb bl...

There were also serious incidents in Takhar province in the north, in Loghar, east of the capital, and Kandahar in the south, keeping up a pattern of attacks across the country. The US military said t...

Danish says the buses were traveling from the capital, Kabul, northeast to Takhar and Badakhshan provinces ... MEP Martina Anderson from Northern Ireland said last week during a meeting at the parliam...